文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Current solutions for the heat-sink effect of blood vessels with radiofrequency ablation: A review and future work

作者：Fang, Zheng[1]; Zhang, Bing[1,2]; Zhang, Wenjun[1,2,3]

机构：[1] CISR Lab, Tumor Ablation Group, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China; [2] Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; [3] Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

年份：2017

卷号：761

起止页码：113

外文期刊名：Communications in Computer and Information Science

收录：EI(收录号：20173804182877)

语种：英文

外文关键词：Blood vessels - Heat sinks - Biomedical engineering - Coagulation

摘要：Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as an alternative treatment to the conventional open surgery is the most popular minimally invasive thermal therapy, and it is widely used in clinic today. One of the most important limits for the RFA in clinic is the difficulty to deal with the heat-sink effect of blood vessels, as it causes the difficulty of control the RFA process and consequently the coagulation size of RFA is decreased considerably (empirically, the coagulation size is less than 3 cm with a single RFA electrode). This paper reviews the literature of the current solution for the heat-sink effect due to large blood vessels and suggests future work for finding more effective solutions. ? Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017.